#93 - Marriage and baptism.... part 6💍(2/24/25)

Quote Princess Bride: "MARRIAGE IS WHAT BRINGS US TOGETHER TODAY!!" ...and baptism as well!

HEY GUYS! How are y'all doing from Utah to Canada to Argentina to Hawaii??

I'm gonna try and make this quick bc I got a lot to say and we got transfers going on today. Just to let everybody know, I'll be staying in Paraíso with Elder Eyring for one more transfer!!!

But here comes the run down for the week:

Valdo family baptism

Monday - Early morning basketball!!!! ...and zumba? We went to the church to play some b ball and ended up running into a group of people doing zumba at the church. Lowkey wanted to join but, bball with the boys was hype. That night we went to work and finally found our friends Valdo and his family to teach them. They had been going to church for a while but we finally got to teach them and invited them to baptism and they accepted! (After trying to invite them for 2 hours bc simone talks a lot! Thanks Elder eyring for calling me a pasture to help get attention😁)

Sister district photo

Tuesday - District council and getting cookies from the Sisters!! Today we also went around doing visits with a future missionary that started his mission today! (24 of February) His name is Douglas! He went with us to visit a recent convert whoses dog peeped on my bag and visit Valdo and his family where the roof was broken and water slowly kept falling on my shoulder 😆

Elder district photo

Douglas!

Wednesday - Today we went to have lunch with Douglas and his family and they tricked me into doing this "word of wisdom" check. You blow into this machine that they say will spin if your lungs are healthy but what ends up happening... is you spray flour in your eyes😂 They got me good! So as they say, Eu cheirei pó 😅. We then went around visiting RC and ended up not visiting one bc a mad cow was blocking our way (I looked intimidating) and we ended the night visiting João and Andressa! We had marked their marriage for Saturday and we went to confirm that all was good and have a baptism interview for them. The cool moment is when Andressa told me that the health she was asking for us to pray for worked! She went for an ultrasound and her baby is in perfect condition!! BLESSINGS!

Flour machine

COW

Thursday - Divison with Elder Rodrigues!! I went to his area and worked with him. We found a less active member who gave us ice cream!! We also went to go teach a part member family and to break the ice with the family, we some how ended up talking about Barbie! Shoutout to my sisters for having me watch barbie! Thanks Chelsey, Marin, and Brenna! 

ice cream!

Friday - Today we went around in our area visiting recent converts until we had our appointment with Valdo and his family. When we got there, no one knew where he was! It was like "Where's Waldo!" We ended up leaving but then we found him while heading back to our house!

ELECT COUPLE

Saturday - We left early to go visit a couple that was going to get baptized and they are elect!! The Sisters from Jardim Europa asked us to go and they are so cool! They have a really old car and they are wanting to serve a couples mission already! We then ran over to the marriage of João and Andressa and later that night we had the baptism! The cool thing was that João wanted to baptism his family and so we got special permission to have João be baptized and confirmed in the water AND recieve the priesthood to then BAPTIZE his family! It was a truly spiritual experience. And to top it off, I got to acomphany Cris in singing a hymn.

 

Marriage

João family baptism

 In the water

Cris!

Sunday - We had church in the morning and then right afterwards, a mission call opening and the baptisms of our friends Valdo, Marlon, and José! This time we got our friends Vinícius, Douglas, and Yuri to baptize our friends! Afterwards, we kinda just spent the rest of the day sending records and tec stuff but overall a very blessed week!

Sunlight

When we were talking to our Mission President about having João baptize his family, he brought up a cool idea. He mentioned what Jesus Christ would do and to think about what would bring the spirit. In this case, it would be to have João baptize his family. As the scritpures say, look unto him in every thought, doubt not, fear not!

Amo vocês! 

Até a semana que vem!

- Elder Fisher